Gove County, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,060 ft 935 m2,860 ft 870 m2,760 ft 840 m2,560 ft 780 m2,360 ft 720 m2,260 ft 690 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gove County averages about 2,680 ft (815 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2,260 ft on the southeast side to 3,060 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
2,680 ft 815 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,060 ft 935 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
2,260 ft 690 m
on the southeast side
Gove County spans about 800 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 2,680 ft815 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 3,060 ft935 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 2,260 ft690 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Baker Township, Gove County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Kansas, United States
- Population
- 2,658 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,071.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2.5 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Thomas County3,180 ft
- Logan County3,100 ft
- Scott County2,990 ft
- Lane County2,760 ft
- Sheridan County2,740 ft
- Gove County2,680 ft
- Ness County2,370 ft
- Graham County2,350 ft
- Trego County2,340 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Kansas21st highest of 104
- Counties in the United States442nd highest of 3,151
All 15 towns in Gove County by typical elevation
- Oakley partly3,060 ft
- Grinnell2,910 ft
- Grinnell Township2,910 ft
- Gaeland Township2,880 ft
- Grainfield2,810 ft
- Grainfield Township2,810 ft
- Park2,750 ft
- Payne Township, Gove County2,740 ft
- Lewis Township2,710 ft
- Gove Township2,680 ft
- Quinter2,670 ft
- Baker Township, Gove County2,670 ft
- Gove City2,630 ft
- Jerome Township2,560 ft
- Larrabee Township2,470 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.